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You gotta know what you are buying, and how to use it to make this a really good deal! Can be used as JBOD for anything if you know how to set it up.
I knew what I was buying so for me this was great!
24x600gb SAS 2.5 6GBps Drives with JBOD for $350 is a steal.
I knew drives would be well used, and I expected a few to be unusable (only one spit out too many read/write errors to be unusable when checking SMART).
I am using this as a Datastore for a Debian Qemu Hypervisor running on a Dell R610. I got a LSI card in IT mode and formatted all the drives to 512 bytes block size (netapp used 520 byte disk sectors). Had to build some tools like sas2ircu and megaraid to get it all working, but it was well worth it.
12TB of usable space @ Linux RAID6+2 hotspare for ~$450 (for cables, and IT Mode HBA) is some incredible value!
All in all, I am happy :)Read full review
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Great SAN storage solution for the price.
NetApp drives can be a pain to get properly formatted for other environments but at this price point it is worth the extra work. Great for add-on storage in a small network. Seems to work great with most HBAs. Keep in mind it's QSFP, but still worth the extra cables at this price point. Lots of room and expandability with low noise and minimal power consumption.Read full review
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TrueNas Core
This worked seamlessly with my HBA Card and Dell 2850 Poweredge Server loaded with Freenas ie Truenas Core. Finally I've got some decent storage. I used two cables to attach my NETAPP JBOD to the HBA Card,
Thanks. All of the disks are good. Thanks for reformatting the Netapp disks to stanard format. That would have presented a huge issue for me as I don't have as much free time as I would like. So spending days reformatting 24 disks would have been very irritating.Read full review
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Would probably buy another if available.
What more can I say. Well packed came on time good price works as expected. I’m happy. ;).
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: pre-owned • Sold by: bigpeach